EXERCISE 31. ĐỀ THI THỬ THPT SƠ GD&ĐT VĨNH PHÚC LẦN 2- 2016

(130866) Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your

answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.

THE BOOK IN THE 21

st

CENTURY

How many times in the last hundred years or so have people talked of the

imminent death of the book? Films were an early threat because they were so effective

at telling stories in a visual way. Next there was radio, (26) stepped

into the mid-twentieth century and provided such an alternative to books as drama,

documentaries and discussions. When television arrived, many people believed that it

would finish the book off. Nowadays, (27) the threat by TV, the book is thought to be

endangered by computers and the Internet, and by other technological attractions (28)

theCD and the video game, too.

Surely there are now reasons why (29) book ought to be dead, or at least very badly

injured. If so, why does it not show proper respect for these reportedly less

literate times

(30)

die out? There is

clearly

more

than a single

answer to

this question.

Firstly,

we have more

leisure

time

than we(31)

to, and

people are generally living longer, which means there is more time to do more

(including reading books). As

(32)

as this, there is the strength of the book

as a tradition. We are all too dismissive of traditions in our modern world, but

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